Your question would be much better applied to height discrimination, which is something that’s almost never mentioned, but is a lot more indicative of the nature of discrimination itself.

It is instinctual, as others have said, but it has nothing to do with tribalism or war, its about resources. Discrimination is almost always about resources (the notable exception being gender/orientation based discrimination, which I guess is religious?).

The discrimination against small people (and obesity and age as well), is more basic, and likely older (in evolutionary terms), and is oriented towards hunting and fighting. We think less of smaller, fatter, and older people because they’re assumed to be less capable of gathering (and fighting for or defending) basic resources.

Discrimination against races is more recent, and more societal, and is more about monetary resources, and isn’t even entirely a matter of race. Poor white people can be discriminated against in the exact same way for the exact same reasons. Racism is more classist than discrimination against height, weight age, etc. but is essentially still a matter of these classes being seen as less capable of getting resources.

You can see it more easily if you look objectively at the discriminatory tendencies of women (and I mean that in a very generalized way). They tend to be far more discriminatory towards resource based biases… Height, weight, physical condition… They’re often inexplicably attracted to overly aggressive partners, occasionally to their own detriment. The more instinctual a woman is, the more likely to pursue the overly aggressive men. Race isn’t anywhere near as much a factor, and there are notable exceptions in all factors for women if a man obviously has a lot of resources already (no indictment intended ladies, just is what it is, and generally)

And of course it’s more obvious among women for the same reason… The disparity (again, in a very general sense) between male and female in ability to gather and defend resources affects women’s choices of partners more so than men.

Jailed at 16 and released at 36.

Imagine everything a 40 year old has done since they graduated high school, to get where they’re at now. This guy has four years to do all that…

Can’t be unfucked.

Man… I saw this shit on TV as I was leaving to pick my wife up from work. Figured I’d see how it played out before I left, because it was a police chase and wouldn’t be on the news for very long.

She’s still pissed off about it lol. Mention the OJ chase and she’ll immediately start ranting about not having seen it because someone was an hour late picking her up…

Fuckin oj…

Every bn will have a challenge coin (or several, sometimes the senior NCO will have his own design), so there’s a unique design for roughly every 1,000 people in the army, and they get redesigned fairly often, because the command teams change out after just a few years and often want to have their own version.

Which is just to say that it’s fairly common for someone to go googling to look for images to put on challenge coins, not that it’s normal for yours, out of billions of possibilities on the internet, to have been picked out :)

Please tell me they did you the courtesy of sending you one of those coins…

White paper and black text is the norm because until relatively recently, it was much more cost effective… This could be done cheaply with modern tech, and should 100% be a thing…

I’d buy the hell out of dark mode books.